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Top 25 Retail media agencies based in South Africa

RevenueBase identified 337 retail media agencies headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026 and tracks 6,450 professional contacts across them, including 1,383 with verified work emails. Johannesburg is the largest hub.

This list covers retail media agencies headquartered in South Africa, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 21, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

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337Companies
6,450Contacts tracked
1,383Verified emails
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The 25 largest retail media agencies based in South Africa

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 337 retail media agencies based in South Africa, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 21, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to retail media agencies: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Indirect evidenceRandburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026201-500652 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Tradeway is South Africa's leading independent activation agency.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
2Partial evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026201-500341 contacts →

Partial evidence

“A leading full-service communications agency, known for seamlessly delivering impactful solutions with unparalleled retail expertise.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
3Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026201-500260 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“TBWA\ is The Disruption® Company: the cultural engine for 21st century business.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
4Partial evidenceBryanston, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200168 contacts →

Partial evidence

“The MediaShop is a full service, innovative, pioneering, always evolving media agency.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
5Partial evidenceEdenvale, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026501-1,000161 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We are a specialised retail services company that helps brands optimise sales and improve in-store execution with tailored, hands-on solutions.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
6Indirect evidenceSandton, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5097 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“XP SQUARED is consumer marketing company that specialises in end-to-end shopper marketing solutions including activations, POS, sampling, events and more.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
7Partial evidenceStellenbosch, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20091 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Across our 22+ years of retail and brand marketing, we know that it’s all about the message, medium, and moment where you capture your audience.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
8Indirect evidenceBryanston, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20081 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We established Promise with no clients or start-up capital in 2005.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
9Indirect evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5066 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Google knows what consumers are looking for.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
10Indirect evidencePaulshof, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20055 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Welcome to the house of Resonance™ - Mortimer Harvey.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
11Partial evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5054 contacts →

Partial evidence

“United Stations is a specialist media sales house, boasting a national footprint of some of the top radio brands.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
12Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5054 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Brutal simplicity of thought is at the heart of everything we do and we use this to guarantee that our work is always simple, creative and impactful.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
13Indirect evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5046 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“VF!”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
14Partial evidenceBryanston, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 20261,001-5,00045 contacts →

Partial evidence

“GroupM is the world’s leading media investment company responsible for more than $45B (COMvergence) in annual media investment through agencies including Mindshare, MediaCom…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
15Partial evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20043 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Pure Retail offers specialized in-store retail solutions that will ensure your brand is kept front of mind and does not get lost in and amongst a sea of competitors.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
16Partial evidenceEdenvale, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026501-1,00041 contacts →

Partial evidence

“The Brand & Beverage Company is a retail sales and brand marketing specialist offering brand owners a start-to-end sales, merchandising & distribution solution for the emerging…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
17Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5039 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“With over two decades of experience, Eyes and Ears Marketing Services is a accredited marketing agency with extensive experience in market research.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
18Partial evidenceSandton, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20036 contacts →

Partial evidence

“100 Degrees Online Marketing is a digital media specialist company and one of the leading South African media placement and online marketing agencies.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
19Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5035 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We have a challenger mindset and through this have made more brands ‘go viral’, globally, than any other agency in Africa.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
20Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5030 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“As Primedia Instore we can guarantee that you and your brand will have access to: 1.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
21Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026201-50029 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Aqua is an integrated marketing agency with strong entrepreneurial roots.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
22Indirect evidenceRandburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5027 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Birthmark provides video solutions for on air and online marketing.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
23Indirect evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5026 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Angle Orange, founded in 2005 is a shopper marketing agency based in Cape Town, South Africa.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
24Partial evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5026 contacts →

Partial evidence

“At Mediaheads360 we are a dynamic team of media specialists that have a love for powerful, creative ideas that drive holistic media campaigns.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
25Partial evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5026 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Keys Communications are Township Media Specialists.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026

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Retail media agencies based in South Africa at a glance

As of Sep 21, 2026
21.4%Verified-email coverage
19.1Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
29.7%Largest-city concentration · Johannesburg
Sep 21, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
181
11-50
111
51-200
29
201-500
9
501-1,000
3
1,001-5,000
3
5,001-10,000
1

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for South Africa, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for South Africa, over 337 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among retail media agencies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in South Africa whose own description of what they do matches “retail media agencies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names retail media agencies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among retail media agencies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside South Africa are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality
In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking
Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification
Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,383 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 21, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.

Retail media agencies by metro

Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names retail media agencies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many retail media agencies are there based in South Africa?

RevenueBase identified 337 retail media agencies headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Tradeway, headquartered in Randburg, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most retail media agencies?

Johannesburg leads with 100 headquartered companies, followed by Cape Town (52) and Sandton (28).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,383 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 337 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 21, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.